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Wish we could all be more childlike reading Harry Potter. Why couldn’t we have just left it as a well written fantasy series, instead of questioning the preferences of some of the characters and the -isms of the author?
It's hard. I love Harry Potter. I love Ender's Game. But their authors hate the people I love. Not personally. They don't know them and hate them anyway. It makes me sad. I want to share those books.
But I guess it's better to share books by people who don't hate my friends. I'll always have Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. I've been sharing The Golden Compass with my kids lately.
Harry Potter was good. But I can live without it in my life. I think I will keep sharing Ender's Game though.
I understand why Harry Potter found a place in everyone's hearts. But with the behavior of the author, the books are in hindsight a lot more mean spirited than I remembered. That hatred for me and my loved ones bled into the books quite a lot now that I can recognize it.
I still enjoy it and plan to read it to my kids one day. It's a fun world, and always will be, independently of the beliefs that the author developed decades after it was written.
Lovecraft, Tolkien, and certainly the majority of classic authors held beliefs that most would find objectionable. That doesn't make their work any less great.